Welcome to Litsy!

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This book is about the author‘s memories of her time spent in Japan. Where big group baths are common. This story is lovingly told and would be fantastic at story time if Americans weren‘t such small minded people who bring shame to everything. Because this book has illustrations of naked women. It‘s not to glorify and it‘s not to be lustful. It‘s to say bodies are human, bodies are normal. And that being around others bearing your

Based on the Kyo Maclear‘s experiences of being of mixed heritage, told from the POV of a child recounting the joys of visiting her grandmother in Japan, chief among them a trip to the local bath house with aunts & cousins. Gracey Zhang‘s ink brush & watercolour art captures the moods—wet & splashy indoors, quiet and refreshed walking home afterwards. A celebration of family traditions & of female bodies. #Canadian #picturebook #kidlit

From the author‘s note:
As a child, I spent July & August in Japan at my grandmother‘s house. My grandmother & I didn‘t share a common language, but we shared rituals, a sweet tooth & a love of bathing.
Because of the bath house, I grew up surrounded by naked bodies of all ages, shapes & sizes. The idea that bodies should always be private & clothed wasn‘t the norm & part of my hope with this story is to share & celebrate this other way of being.

Face flushed, you‘ll walk
into the cool night air.

The water will flow
and the garden will grow
at the big bath house.
The birds will be fed
and your clothes will be shed
at the big bath house.